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Guitar Girl

Author: Sarra Manning

Publisher: Hachette

Review

17-year-old Molly and her two friends dream of starting a girl band and singing about ordinary things such as school and those little toys you get in plastic eggs. After their first 'official' gig, they are approached by Dean and T, who offer to join the band and help them succeed. Molly is plunged into the terrifying world of celebrity, which leaves her struggling to remember who she was before she became lead singer of The Hormones.

Sara Manning tells the story in an approachable way, perfectly portraying the mood swings of the teenage girls.

Sarra Manning is a teen queen extraordinaire. She spent five years working on the legendary but now sadly defunct UK teen mag, J17, first as a writer and then as Entertainment Editor. She then joined the launch team and became editor of teen fashion bible Ellegirl UK. There followed a stint as editor of the BBC's What To Wear and consulting on Bliss, The Face and More. Sarra now writes for ELLE, Grazia, Red, InStyle, The Guardian, The Mail On Sunday's You magazine and The Sunday Telegraph's Stella.

Her best-selling teen novels, which include Guitar Girl, Let's Get Lost and The Diary Of A Crush trilogy, have been translated into numerous languages and in 2008, she was short listed for the Book People's Queen of Teen award. In 2009, her first adult novel, Unsticky, was published by Headline Review. Sarra lives in North London.